We had arrived two days ago and fortified the farmstead. Since 5th companys forces where stretched real thin and quite worn down, my squad wasn´t at full strenght. We were only eight men, most of them new to me.
One days hard fighting and private Deen and I where the only survivors of the original 3rd squad. Since I didn´t know the new meat I decided to assign him as my new Corpral. Lt didn´t mind, so Deen got a quick field promotion.
Our squad weren´t assigned any new special weapons either. I guess Lt was tired of the specialist getting killed on my watch. Well, so was I.
The munition where getting scarce too. Apart from the two mags each soldier worn for their lasgun, we had only half a grate of extra with us. But at least the farmstead had a effective power plant so we could recharge them quick and easy.
We settled in awaited the orks arrival...one early morning they came.
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Early in the morning two alarm flares flamed up. One of them from the north, where Kilrayne had anticipated the main thrust to come from. But one also flared in the south where only two of the men had been stationed.
Kilrayne and two of the troopers had set up in the middle of the farmstead to serve as a back up and second defense line. As soon as the attack commenced Kilrayne told comm trooper Deric to report to HQ what was happening.
At the main defence line Corporal Deen and two men where stationed. They where dug in and as prepared as they could be.
As soon as the enemy came within range they started firing. Deen saw the orks at the lead armed with close combat weapons and pistols starting to run towards them. They´ll make good targets Deen mused to himself. Suddenly noise erupted as the orks who had held back started firing. They streaked the walls with what seemed to be ork equilient of rifles.
"Sgt, they are trying some new tactics!" Deens shouted. "They are trying to keep us pinned! Do you see that big brute back there. He seems to be leading the force...." Deen threw himself to the ground as a big part of the wall where sprayed with fire. "Dear Emperor.....They´ve got a machinegun!"
The troopers in the first line kept firing back as best they could, but their lack of experience where showing. Their snapshots missed and the few that hit failed to injure the orks.
Those two in the second line did what they could but the orks where to far away. Kilrayne saw the trooper next to him take long and steady aim. Gently squeeze of a shot that hit ono of the orks straight in the head. "Nice shot soldier".
Kilrayne stared in disbelief, even though a part of it jaw where gone, the ork got back up on its feet and started to run towards them. "Lord Emperor, what does it take to keep them down" Kilrayne whispered to himself.
The orks kept spraying the fortifications while their compagnions charged them. The trooper stationed in the dug out sat up to fire of a few shots. He got hit by a slug from one of the charging orks and fell down with large piece of his chest blown away.
Deen yelled to the other trooper to keep up the fire, just as one of the orks charged him. Deen fired at full auto into chest of the ork.
The ork bled from his wounds but grapped the rifle and shoved it to the side. Then with a cut from above, it slashed through Deens helmet with the axe. Deen staggerd backwards a few steps and then toppled over.
It proved to be to much for the last soldier in the first line and he started running backwards, towards the second line.
"Fall in and protect the left flank" Kilrayne shouted and pointing to the habs corner. The trooper nodded and took up his new firing position.
Kilrayne could hear fire coming from the south too. The short loud barks of the orks guns and the snapping sound as the lasguns fired... He threw a quick glance towards that battle only to see a ork sneaking around the building.
It started to run towards Kilrayne howling "WHAAAAGGGHHH!!!". Kilrayne flipped the power on the chainsword to on and charged it. Nothing to do but to fight.
Kilrayne went in for a low cut towards the legs of the brute. The chainsaw drew up a big lash in the leg. The ork punched Kilrayne in the chest with its left fist. The impact drove Kilrayne backwards as he struggled to take a breath. The ork kept up pace and followed through with a sweep with it axe towards Kilraynes stomach. He managed to evade it by jumping backwards and as the orks drew its axe back for a new attack Kilrayne saw the opening. He thrusted his sword right into the face of the ork and straight into its brain. As the brute fell to its knees he swept in with a new attack taking its head straight off.
One of the troopers meanwhile had killed another of the orks and now ran to help his friend who desperatly fough in close combat. Kilrayne ran to help. Charging into the fray with his chainsword, the ork had to parry Kilraynes attacks. The troopers grabbed the chance and plunged their bayonets into its back killing it.
"Kolbaehc , flank them " He pointed towards one of the troopers. "The first line has fallen, back up the second line" kilrayne shouted to them as he ran back towards the generator.
Back at the second line the fire from the soldiers where keeping the orks at bay. The orks hugged the wall pouring fire back. Kilrayne threw himself into cover as heavy machine gun fire rikocheded of the machine. "Concentrate your fire on that machinegunner!". As one all the reamining troopers fired towards the ork. It staggerd backwards as many shots hit it. Its gun exploded as one of the lasbolts hit the magazine.
Back amongst the rocks Kilrayne could see more orks coming running, with pistols and closecombat weapons in their hands. Kilrayne could also see the large ork with horns on its helmet. It had hardly moved. It was as if it was watching them and how they reacted.
The fire fight kept going, both ork and men where saved many times by the cover and their armor. Trooper Kolbaehc swung around the corner and with a burst from his lasgun, felled the ork who had kept Kilrayne pinned.
One of the orks hit Kolbaehc with a stray shot from it pistol, all while it kept running toward the troopers covering around the generator.
It was looking grim for the defenders. There where only five left of them. Three by the generators and one by each flank.
The trooper who had fallen back earlier aimed his rifle towards one of the ork covering behind the wall. Suddenly he heard a loud boom as a gun went off a few meters beside him, and he felt a slug whistle past his helmet. They had been flanked!
He whirled round and fired of on full auto at the ork that where charging him. The rifle went dry just as the ork slashed its axe towards his head. The soldier could do nothing but fight.
Suddenly one of the orks more or less was evaporised as three large laser beams hit him from the flank. One sentinel strode in firing away at the targets. Two more where coming in from the south.
Kilraynes feeling of relief where quickly turned in bone chilling fear as the remaining orks let of a unison "WHAAAAGHHH!" and charged. The ground thundered as they came towards them The orks with rifles threw them away and pulled up what they probably deemed as daggers. To the humans, they where swords.
A vicious fight erupted, and Kilrayne could see comm trooper Deric being gutted. Kilrayne ducked the slash from the ork who had jumped up on the barrels. Kilrayne chopped of one of its foot and as it fell Kilrayne moved to the side and brought his sword up to meet the falling ork.
The trooper by Kilraynes side had taken one of the orks out and now only two orks remained in battle, the one who had killed Deric and the one fighting with the trooper by the hab building. A fight the trooper was loosing.
The ork close by grinned and turned towards Kilrayne. As Kilrayne steeled him self for the upcoming battle, the surviving soldier slammed in a new mag and shot the brute dead at close range.
Kilrayne turned his attention towards the fighting by the hab and charged in just as the trooper stumbled and fell. The towering brute lifted his axe to kill the soldier but Kilrayne was quicker. He chopped off the orks hand still holding the axe and then sidestepped and chopped off its right leg. As the ork went down, Kilrayned killed it with a thrust into the chest.
Killrayne looked around for more enemies but there where none. It seemed the large ork had slipped away.
Killrayne turned his attention to his men, two of them where still alive but very badly injured. The farm serfs helped getting them inside and treated as they waited for med-vac.
The sentinels scouted the surrounding landscape but could not find any more xenos.
Two days later a Chimera arrived to take away the injured and dead. Two soldiers in full gear stepped out of the Chimera. They marched up to Kilrayne, saluted and handed over a letter from Lt.
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Good job, Sgt.
You are to proceed as ordered until further notice.
"
Kilrayne looked at the troopers, "...and who are you?"
"Sir, private Jugh and Tinder. We are ordered to reinforce you"
It turned out there had been some real fighting and platoon 4 and 5 where dismantled and the troopers assigned other platoons in the company.
This is not the walk in the park the Lt talked about in the beginning. The orks that attacked us where not stragglers looking for supplies. They where testing us. I´ve got a bad feeling about this Kilrayne thought to himself as he lit up his cigar.
17 April 2010, 02:32:36 AM